The has announced Rs 500 crore to acquire land along the coastal belt ofMaharashtra<\/u>, betweenRevas<\/u>in Raigad and Redi in Sindhudurg, for theMumbai-Goa coastal highway project<\/u>.<\/p>\n
A tender for a four-lane bridge over Dharamtar creek, costing around Rs 900 crore, was floated, finance minister Ajit Pawar revealed in his budget speech<\/p>\n
The statesBalasaheb Thackeray<\/u>memorial prosperity corridor between Mumbai and Nagpur will be extended from Nagpur to Bhandara-Gondia and Nagpur to Gadchiroli. This will facilitate a fastest approach to tiger safaris in the jungles of Vidarbha. Around 77% work of this highway has been completed. Necessary funds will be provided for land acquisition of Jalna-Nanded Expressway, he added.<\/p>\n
If all goes as planned, by 2025 Mumbaikars will be able to take a 500km scenic Marine highway along Konkan beaches and forts. In an earlier budget the Thackeray government had announced Rs 3,500 crore to develop the single-lane state highway (MSH4), with 30km of missing bridges over creeks and rivers, into a coastal highway on the lines of the pacific coast highway in US.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"